Community issues

Adam Michael Nettina, 34, of West Friendship has been sentenced to two years in federal prison followed by three years of supervised release for making death threats and other calls for violence against advocates for LGBTQI+ people as well as two legislators.

Carlos Ayala is a Republican from Salisbury who was appointed to the elections board last year by Gov. Wes Moore, following a recommendation from the Maryland Republican Party.

The Baltimore Police Department Thursday released body-worn camera footage of a police shooting that happened in late December. The footage shows a man attacking officers with multiple handheld weapons and an officer shooting him in the leg.

The Maryland General Assembly passed the measure requiring people to obtain a handgun qualification license, or HQL, in 2013 following the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut.

The Maryland Department of Transportation said in a Thursday press release that it “is aware of fraudulent text messages that were sent to some customers posing as MDOT, MVA, or MTA.” The agency says it got fraudulent websites taken down.

Officials with the attorney general’s office identified the man killed by police in Pikesville this week as Sha-Kim Akil Webley.

Johns Hopkins hospitals and doctor offices join two other Maryland medical systems in requiring masks again.

The federal Safe Streets and Roads for All program is providing money to counties and cities across Maryland to study safety for drivers and pedestrians alike.

Last June, Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates announced that his office was launching a court docket to handle citations for quality-of-life crimes. The Baltimore Banner analyzed 227 citations from July through December.

Officer Eric Payton, 46, of Parkville, a more than seven-year veteran, stood trial in Baltimore Circuit Court on charges of theft and misconduct in office.

A pedestrian who was struck and trapped by a Metro SubwayLink train has been rescued and transported to an area hospital, a Baltimore City Fire Department spokesperson said.

Tuesday’s rainstorms swept unusual puffin-like seabirds into the mid-Atlantic region.

The city of Annapolis opened an emergency shelter at the Pip Moyer Recreation Center in response to a Jan. 9, 2024 fire that displaced more than 70 residents from the Annapolis Light House shelter. Residents were later relocated to local hotel rooms.

Baltimore area residents and emergency responders are surveying the damage caused by substantial rainfall that soaked the region Tuesday.

The package is expected to draw opposition some groups and politicians in Maryland who believe each locality should be given autonomy over how to control housing within their borders.

On Wednesday, for the first time since April 1, Maurtice will see Connor, the boy accused of shooting him. He, his mother Margaret Neal, and his older sister Brittany Neal, have been summoned to testify at the Anne Arundel County Courthouse on Church Circle. Connor has been charged as a juvenile so the charging documents, details of the investigation, and the court proceedings are confidential.

A detective was posing as a 13-year-old girl online when the man initiated communication with her on a mobile messaging app, according to the Frederick County Sheriff’s Office.

Some school systems are delayed or closed after a severe storm caused flooding and road closures.

There are over 700 active outages on Wednesday morning impacting thousands of customers, according to the Baltimore Gas and Electric outage map.

When Baltimore State’s Attorney Ivan Bates, a Democrat, ran for office, he promised to rescind a policy from his predecessor, Marilyn Mosby, against prosecuting low-level, nonviolent offenses including including trespassing, loitering and disorderly conduct.